Flash in the Pan on Highlander
#ff9977 on #3a533d
Body text at this size
And the smaller size most interfaces actually use for paragraphs — the size that decides whether a pair is usable.
Caption text, which almost nothing passes.
WCAG 2.1
4.05:1
Large text only
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -47.6
Clears Lc 45 — large or heavy display text.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 54.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ffa78a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #3a533d, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 3.33:1, ΔE00 35.1.
deuteranopia
Ratio 4.46:1, ΔE00 44.3.
tritanopia
Ratio 5.34:1, ΔE00 70.6.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 35.1 apart against 54.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Flash in the Pan ·Highlander · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs